Here is something that may shock people: we're still maintaining systemsfiles with RCS .And I maintain that this is not as crazy as it sounds, once you digunder the surface, and that system administration is one of the lastplaces where RCS is sensible some of the time.

For all their myriad benefits, the drawback of modern version controlsystems is that they really want to be used on whole directories (ordirectory hierarchies). This is generally pretty okay for source code,where you have directories

We've recently got some additional pieces of news on the faulted ZFSspares situation .

First, our suspicion as to the cause was correct; Sun has confirmed thatthere is a race in adding the same spare to multiple pools under somecircumstances. The fix for it is apparently in Solaris 10 update 8, andSun did an 'IDR' for us for our Solaris 10 update 6 systems. (I assumebut have not confirmed that just applying the current set of ZFS patchesand their prerequisites is good

Here is a thesis: the larger or more standardized the environmentfor sending messages, the more spam you should expect to get in orthrough it. Accordingly, email is heavily abused because it is hugelystandardized.

The spammer's motivation for abusing larger, standardized environmentsis obvious; the larger the environment, the more people you can reachwith a single technique, approach, or system. Larger environments havebetter return on effort, since generally (but not always) most of theeffort in spamming in an environment